News

Feb 2008

Mark Beaumont nears the end of his record breaking Round the World Cycle Challenge

On Sunday 5th August 2007, Mark Beaumont cycled out of Paris on a solo attempt to break the 18,000 mile World Record to become the fastest person to have ever circumnavigated the globe by bicycle. Trident Sensors Ltd sponsored Mark in his attempt by providing a personnel tracker to allow the BBC who are making a documentary about him, his friends, family and sponsors to keep up to date with his progress.

Jan 2008

Trident Sensors Ltd and Iridium Satellites LLC host a meeting at the ROYAL Society to discuss Earth Observations from the Iridium Next Constellation to be launched between 2013 and 2016.

Nov 2007

Bill Simpson represents Trident Sensors Ltd at the GEO IV Plenary Session & Ministerial Summit, Cape Town, South Africa.

Nov 2007

Trident Sensors Ltd acquired Challenger Oceanic.

Aug 2007

Trident Sensors Ltd deliver 300 OCTrackers units to OCEvents for tracking all the yachts in the Rolex Fastnet Race.

Oct 2006

The Scotish Association for Marine Science(SAMS) track arctic sea ice in the Nares Strait, Greenland.

As part of the GreenICE project the Scotish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) have deployed ice monitoing buoys based on the Helix boardset and Iridium 9601 SBD transceiver. The image below shows the Google Earth plot of the SAMS buoys in the Nares Strait.

For live tracking open the following file (Nares_Strait.kml) in Google Earth.

Sept 2006

OCTRACKERS USED TO TRACK THE CASCAIS YACHT RACE

The OCTRACKERS are currently being used to track the Cascais race fleet. The position of the yachts can be followed live using Google Earth on the RORC website.

Aug 2006

OCTRACKERS USED TO TRACK THE SEVENSTAR ROUND BRITAIN AND IRELAND YACHT RACE

On August 7th 2006, twenty eight yachts left Cowes in the Isle of Weight at the start of the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race. All the boats were fitted with OCTracker units developed by Trident Sensors and OCTechnology on behalf of the Royal Ocean Racing Club. These units provide fantastic data live to the internet including position and speeds.

Mar 2006

TRACKING DAME ELLEN MACARTHUR'S 'B&Q' USING GOOGLE EARTH

'B&Q' tracked from Cowes to Hong Kong Royal Yacht Club using Google Earth

A year on from making history by breaking the solo round the world record onboard her 75-foot trimaran 'B&Q', Dame Ellen MacArthur is embarking on a new venture to establish a series of crewed record times between key Asian ports including Japan, South Korea, from the north-east to the south-western tips of Chinese mainland and Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore.

Trident Sensors Ltd has been working with Offshore Challenges Group to develop a tracking device for yacht racing applications. A unit was installed on 'B&Q' in January and was sucessfully used to track the yacht during the voyage from Cowes to Hong Kong and is currently tracking 'B&Q' during the record attempts. Data transmitted from the tracker is linked to Google Earth for plotting the yachts position with real-time up-dates. The crew or the monitoring team can change the interval between transmissions by sending an email to the unit.

Further news on 'B&Q's progress can be found here.

Mar 2006

Trident Sensors will launch the new Harsh Environment Helix board (version 2) Satellite Tracking and Monitoring Unit at OI 06 in London

The board is integrated in the Iridium 9601 Talladega satellite transceiver and provides a powerful, compact, versatile, GPS tracking and data transmitter. This unit is smaller, lighter, draws less power and is a lower cost alternative to the Daytona 9522 LBT. With applications in asset tracking and monitoring of personnel, land vehicles, ships, AUVs, ROVs, buoys, moorings, floats, containers, polar installations, fishing vessels, life rafts and animals.

London, UK (PRWEB) February 25, 2006 – Trident Sensors located in Cranleigh, Surrey, UK continually strives to be at the forefront of telemetry development. Now with the new Helix board (version 2) the unit is smaller, lighter, draws less power and is available at a lower cost. This makes tracking and monitoring affordable even in applications with restricted space.

Applications include: Asset Tracking, Oceanography, Polar Research, Maritime, Military, Humanitarian Work, Meteorology, Oil and Gas, Aviation, Government, Forestry and Emergency Services.

The Helix board will be launched at the world's largest marine science & ocean technology meeting, Oceanology International 06 http://www.oi06.com/ from 21-23 March at the Excel Centre, London.

Trident Sensors will exhibit at stand 1261. Also on display will be other devices using satellite communications: HELIX multi-function board set with GPS engine interfaced to the L-Band Data Transceiver, Personnel Tracking Unit , Vessel Monitoring Unit , Antennae, Portable Satellite Phone, L-Band Transceiver & GPS Systems.

The 3rd Iridium Users' Group Meeting will be held at OI06 on the afternoon of the 21st March. This will be an informal event, with short presentations and open discussions. The main purpose is the exchange of ideas, requirements, applications, new equipment, difficulties and solutions.

The newly launched Trident Sensors website provides detailed information on the products and services http://www.tridentsensors.com.

Contact: Dr. Bill Simpson Trident Sensors Ltd. Tel: +44 (0) 1483 548 992 Email: bill@tridentsensors.com